On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 05:59 +0300, Henrik K wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:08:43PM -0700, John Hardin wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > >> Again - it's not to figure out where spam comes from. It's figuring out > >> where non-spam comes from. I think there are registrars out there that > >> don't have any spam domains registered. > > > > Right, but how do you guarantee a host with a whitelisted RDNS domain > > name doesn't get infected with a smapbot? > > What's that got to do with anything? If there's a 0.5% chance, who cares. > You should always scan for viruses, but it's trivial to skip SA for such > cases. Are you saying that we shouldn't take advantage of DNSWL data either, > since it's possible that some spam may come?
No, I was simply responding to Marc's apparent contention that a host with an RDNS domain name from a trustworthy registrar won't be a source of spam. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Phobias should not be the basis for laws. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 days until the 232nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
